Hole in the Wall Gang

The "Hole in the Wall Gang" is a blanket term referring to the American outlaw gangs that operated out of the Hole in the Wall Pass of Wyoming from the 1860s to the 1900s. One of the most famous gangs was the "Wild Bunch" of Butch Cassidy, while others include Black Jack Ketchum and Jesse James' gangs.

History
The Hole in the Wall was a natural formation in Wyoming that was transformed into a virtual town for outlaws to live in during the Wild West era. Outlaws came in and constructed corrals, huts, livery stables, and other buildings to form a base from which they could operate. No lawman ever successfully entered the area, whether undercover or overtly, during all of its years. The various gangs each had their own chains of command, but they would live together during the harsh winters or whenever they needed to lay low from robberies.

One of the most famous gangs was that of Butch Cassidy, who created a gang consisting of his friends "Sundance Kid", Harvey Logan, Flat Nose Curry, News Carver, Sundance Kid's woman Etta Place, and other associates. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid would spend time at their favorite brothel in a local town where the madame welcomed them, and they became celebrities, even to those who they robbed. They went on vacations to several places, and Harvey Logan once tried to take leadership of the gang due to Cassidy's frequent absences; Cassidy beat him in a brief fight in 1898 and retook command. The gang once ruled the West. However, their robberies of Union Pacific trains encouraged owner E.H. Harriman to hire a specially-trained posse on a specially-outfitted train to track them down and not stop until they were dead. Cassidy and the Sundance Kid decided to flee to Bolivia in 1902, and from 1901 to 1908 all of the gang members were dead in America. In 1908, Butch and Sundance were both killed in a shootout with the Bolivian Army, with Place returning home, as she did not wish to see them die.